Georgia Secretary of State blocks 53,000 voters from registering

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/brian- ... them-black


It's really hard to believe in democratic process when our leaders get to choose their voters.

[unknownsample]

Yeah but antifa, antifa, antifa.

[Admiral X]

Yes, even with other problems existing, antifa is still a threat and should be treated as such.

[unknownsample]

Yes, even with other problems existing, antifa is still a threat and should be treated as such.

Also there a useful means of distracting people from other problems.

[Yukaphile]

Like us inching closer to Fascist law in the leaders getting to choose their voters rather than the other way around.

[Admiral X]

[Yukaphile]

Laugh all you want. It could happen. Don't assume it can't happen here just because it's never happened. Especially if Orange Cheeto refuses to step down despite clear cases of criminal misconduct (and I mean beyond a shadow of a doubt), or really does try to become President-for-life like he said a few months ago. And with gerrymandering and these kinds of tactics, it wouldn't be a democracy anymore. It would be the illusion of democracy. Just like they have in Russia and other Fascist powers. If Trump introduced a bill trying to make himself President-for-life, do you see this Congress saying no to him? I don't. And don't you DARE claim the masses rising up can take it back from our corrupt leaders. I've seen others who identify as libertarian claim the same. The military has carpet bombs, jets, tanks, nuclear bombs... we'd stand no chance. At ALL despite the way our media manipulates us to have this romantic love with vigilante and cowboy justice and that good always wins.

[Darth Wedgius]

Laugh all you want. It could happen. Don't assume it can't happen here just because it's never happened. Especially if Orange Cheeto refuses to step down despite clear cases of criminal misconduct (and I mean beyond a shadow of a doubt), or really does try to become President-for-life like he said a few months ago. And with gerrymandering and these kinds of tactics, it wouldn't be a democracy anymore. It would be the illusion of democracy. Just like they have in Russia and other Fascist powers. If Trump introduced a bill trying to make himself President-for-life, do you see this Congress saying no to him? I don't. And don't you DARE claim the masses rising up can take it back from our corrupt leaders. I've seen others who identify as libertarian claim the same. The military has carpet bombs, jets, tanks, nuclear bombs... we'd stand no chance. At ALL despite the way our media manipulates us to have this romantic love with vigilante and cowboy justice and that good always wins.

First, there is no such thing as a carpet bomb. Carpet bombing is a tactic. It's the same way you can't go to a gun store and buy well-aimed bullets.

Second, those bombs, jets, tanks, etc., need an infrastructure to keep making new parts, get them new fuel, maintain the GPS systems for the bomb, etc. If that stuff is being made in the same cities as are being bombed, it's going to dry up after a while.

Third, those soldiers in those tanks, and the airmen in those planes, are probably the same kind of people as your next-door neighbors. The members of the armed forces aren't mindless automatons, and it doesn't take a large number of them sabotaging things for a large-scale military effort to break down.

Fourth, it would take a constitutional amendment, not a bill, to legally give the president more than two terms. I mean, it's largely academic when you declare yourself president-for-life anyway, but it's a small detail.

Fifth, when Trump mentioned lifetime presidencies, all evidence is that it was a joke.

Sixth, there were all kinds of conspiracy theories running around Obama. He was going to take away all the guns and lock people up in FEMA camps. There was the same kind of evidence behind those -- pretty much none. People who believed them were determined to hate Obama and would believe anything they found that supported that, no matter how silly it was. I hope a little of that sounds familiar.

[Yukaphile]

I never got the impression Obama was a hateful tyrant. Trump is. Just a shady, corrupt businessman looking out for number one. Trump I could see amending the Constitution to do just that. I also don't buy the argument that we're a community, thus a military dictatorship just CAN'T happen here. Don't assume invincibility. Don't. It could happen. Don't believe in the personal fable. It happened in Germany. It's happened in many other American republics down south past the equator. It could easily happen here.

[Darth Wedgius]

I never got the impression Obama was a hateful tyrant. Trump is. Just a shady, corrupt businessman looking out for number one. Trump I could see amending the Constitution to do just that. I also don't buy the argument that we're a community, thus a military dictatorship just CAN'T happen here. Don't assume invincibility. Don't. It could happen. Don't believe in the personal fable. It happened in Germany. It's happened in many other American republics down south past the equator. It could easily happen here.

Apparently none of that was familiar to you.